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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Sun, 03/20/2016 - 02:05

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess nearly 20 years ago. Google's AlphaGo has won two of the first three games against grandmaster Lee ... NYU research psychologist Gary ...

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Apple aims to bolster lineup with new iPhone to remain competitive - Economic Times

Sun, 03/20/2016 - 00:10

Apple aims to bolster lineup with new iPhone to remain competitive
Economic Times
"I suspect this is far more about boosting off-season sales than it is about introducing a new iPhone at a dramatically lower price point, for example, for emerging markets," said Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research in a blog post. But Dawson said the new ...

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Apple aims to bolster lineup with new iPhone to remain competitve - Economic Times

Sun, 03/20/2016 - 00:10

Apple aims to bolster lineup with new iPhone to remain competitve
Economic Times
"I suspect this is far more about boosting off-season sales than it is about introducing a new iPhone at a dramatically lower price point, for example, for emerging markets," said Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research in a blog post. But Dawson said the new ...

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How the Computer Beat the Go Master - Scientific American

Sat, 03/19/2016 - 08:00

Scientific American

How the Computer Beat the Go Master
Scientific American
Assuming that a game of chess lasts on average d moves (called the game's depth), the complete game tree from any one starting position—the list of all moves, countermoves, counter-countermoves and so on until one side or the other wins—contains ...
AlphaGo and the Clash of CivilizationsForeign Policy (blog)
Five Lessons from AlphaGo's Historic VictoryMIT Technology Review
Is artificial intelligence ready to rule the world?Science Network Western Australia

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How the Computer Beat the Go Master - Scientific American

Sat, 03/19/2016 - 08:00

Scientific American

How the Computer Beat the Go Master
Scientific American
Assuming that a game of chess lasts on average d moves (called the game's depth), the complete game tree from any one starting position—the list of all moves, countermoves, counter-countermoves and so on until one side or the other wins—contains ...
AlphaGo and the Clash of CivilizationsForeign Policy (blog)
Five Lessons from AlphaGo's Historic VictoryMIT Technology Review
AlphaGo's win over Go champion Lee Se-Dol proves AI can be 'immoral'Daily Mail
Science Network Western Australia
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Now, Facebook introduces basketball game in its messenger service - Economic Times

Sat, 03/19/2016 - 06:01

Economic Times

Now, Facebook introduces basketball game in its messenger service
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Twitter stated on Friday that new research from IPSOS shows that the social media site is increasingly adopted by the mass affluent across key markets in Asia. In India, 87 per cent of the mass affluent surveyed use Twitter on a regular ...

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WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 19) - The Sun Herald

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 20:39

WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 19)
The Sun Herald
Game master Mike Redmond offers role-playing games, trading games such as Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, chess, video and computer games and board games. ..... Science Cafe: 6-7:30 p.m., Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 703 E. Beach Drive, Ocean Springs.

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Checkmate: Electrical and Computer Engineering grad student wins the Alberta University chess title - Voiceonline.com

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 17:57

Voiceonline.com

Checkmate: Electrical and Computer Engineering grad student wins the Alberta University chess title
Voiceonline.com
For Banerjee, playing chess and conducting research are two interwoven activities that often feed off each other. His graduate study of wireless communication and networking echoes some of the underlying principles of the game. “Chess, if you think of ...

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Artificial intelligence moving beyond board games - SFGate

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 15:47

SFGate

Artificial intelligence moving beyond board games
SFGate
Long a yardstick for advances in AI, the era of board game testing has come to an end, said Murray Campbell, an IBM research scientist who was part of the team that developed Deep Blue, the first computer program to beat a world chess champion. “Games ...

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AlphaGo and the Clash of Civilizations - Foreign Policy (blog)

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 15:35

Foreign Policy (blog)

AlphaGo and the Clash of Civilizations
Foreign Policy (blog)
But in early March, AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google's artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind, defeated a South Korean Go grandmaster. The historic match attracted wide attention ... But the number of possibilities in the game of ...
Five Lessons from AlphaGo's Historic VictoryMIT Technology Review

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For 'Magic: The Gathering', Diversity Is The Marketing Strategy - Forbes

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 10:00

Forbes

For 'Magic: The Gathering', Diversity Is The Marketing Strategy
Forbes
The game is so intricate that it has a professional circuit called the Pro Tour, where competitors who train as intensely as chess players vie for cash prizes and live audiences. It's this complexity that gives it such a geeky reputation, but also what ...

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When Machines Think and Feel - Wall Street Journal

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 09:36

Wall Street Journal

When Machines Think and Feel
Wall Street Journal
Go resembles chess in the deep, complex problems it poses but is even harder to play and has resisted AI researchers longer. It requires mastery of strategy and tactics while you conceal your own plans and try to read your opponent's. Mastering Go fits ...

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The Syria Gambit – Geneva 'Peace Talks' and Russia's “Pullout”. “Regime Change” Remains Washington's Target… - Center for Research on Globalization

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 08:44

Center for Research on Globalization

The Syria Gambit – Geneva 'Peace Talks' and Russia's “Pullout”. “Regime Change” Remains Washington's Target…
Center for Research on Globalization
He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, CounterPunch, TeleSur, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate ...

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Artificial Intelligence Gets a Little Smarter - STRATFOR

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 04:15

STRATFOR

Artificial Intelligence Gets a Little Smarter
STRATFOR
One promising area of research is artificial neural networks, or computing designs modeled on the human brain, which enable programs and robots to identify patterns and react more fluidly in given tasks. The companies and countries that lead in ...
On losing to a computer: Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel.Tampabay.com
Don't Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At GoFiveThirtyEight
What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For EducationNPR
HPCwire (blog) -VentureBeat -CardPlayer.com
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What The Alphabet AlphaGo Victory Means for the AI Sector - Amigobulls

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 02:57

What The Alphabet AlphaGo Victory Means for the AI Sector
Amigobulls
Go is much more complex than chess and, until recently, no machine had beaten a human Go champion. In fact, experts predicted it would be at least another 10 ... The announcement was delayed until the publication of a research article titled "Mastering ...

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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - The Independent

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 02:41

The Independent

What your gaming name reveals about your personality
The Independent
In some respects, we can think of League of Legends and similar types of “multiplayer online battle arenas” as the 21st century's version of chess. A single game of LoL offers each ... So what does this research mean for gamers? While identifying ...

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Boardman Community Briefs - Youngstown Vindicator

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 00:20

Boardman Community Briefs
Youngstown Vindicator
Take steps to help the Junvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) progressively remove the impact of type 1 diabetes from people's lives. By joining a team or making .... Join the Boardman library for an afternoon game of chess. If you would like to ...

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On losing to a computer: Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel. - Tampabay.com

Thu, 03/17/2016 - 23:33

Tampabay.com

On losing to a computer: Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel.
Tampabay.com
It's been almost exactly 20 years since the prototype for this kind of media circus was created, when world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue in Philadelphia in February 1996. (Kasparov would lose the rematch the following year.) IBM ...

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Unleashing Artificial Intelligence with Human-Assisted Machine Learning - Datanami

Thu, 03/17/2016 - 14:50

Unleashing Artificial Intelligence with Human-Assisted Machine Learning
Datanami
No fewer than 170 of the company's GPUs powered AlphaGo, a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Research program designed to play the ancient Chinese board game called Go. While IBM's (NYSE: IBM) AI technology famously triumphed over the chess master ...

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What's in a name - Phys.Org

Thu, 03/17/2016 - 14:10

Phys.Org

What's in a name
Phys.Org
Marshall's painstaking detective work, which began more than a decade ago, continued on and off over the years as he conducted genealogical and historical research both online and at archives, such as those of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. "And then at ...

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